Calendar.



, Nn. 684,!07. Patentedct. 8i I90Lv UEGER.

(App 'cation e ay 4, 1901.)

(N9 Model.)

LwwwW'@l1 Humm-@muuw UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN F. RUEGER, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.-

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 684,107, dated October 8, 1901.

Application filed May 4, 1901. Serial No. 58,741. (No model' To all who/1t t 'ln/tty concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN F. RUEGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Calendar', of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved calendar which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to permit the user to readily change the date plat-es or tabs for each month and to indicate very distinctly the date of the month and the day of the week.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of thesame, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of part of the same.

Theimproved calendar consists,essentially, of a face-board A, of suitable material, and formed on its face with columns B, having a heading C, indicatingin consecutive order the days of the week, as is plainly shown in Fig. 1, each week-day being over a corresponding column B. On the face-board A and preferably midway in the columns B are arranged eyelets D, having hooks D for receiving the eyelets Ein the date plates or tabs F, so that the date-plates hang in the columns one above the other, as is plainly illustrated in Fig. 1. The date-plates F are blank on one face and provided on the other face with a numeral for indicating the day of the month, it being expressly understood, however, that the several numerals run from 1 to 31, and in order to give a more uniform appearance to the calendar additional tabs are provided, blank on both sides, so as to fill out the columns B. Thus it will be seen that with six disks in each. column forty-two interchangeable and reversible disks or tabs are provided for the complete calendar.

The user of the calendar at the beginning of the month places the numeral-tabs in proper position on the corresponding hooks D according to the dates of the month and relatively to the corresponding daysof the weeks indicated by the heading C. The user may have the numerals in front, so that the numerals are all visible, and when a date has passed the user takes the corresponding tab, unhooks it, turns it over, and replaces in on the hook, so that the blank face of this tab is now visible and whereby the date is canceled. Thus the next following numeral indicates the second day. This is kept up through the entire month, and then at the end of the month the tabs are rearranged according to the dates in the following month relatively to the week-days. It desired, the user in arranging the tabs at the beginning of the month may place the tabs in such a position that the numerals face the board A, and consequently the blank faces are only visible, and for the first day the user turnsthe tab having the numeral 1,7 as previously explained, so that the first day is displayed under the corresponding week-day indicated by the heading C. At the end ofthe day this tab having the numeral 1 is again unhooked, turned over, and replaced on its hook and the next following tab is unhooked, turned over, and replaced on its hook, displaying the numeral 2. Thus only the date for the corresponding day of the month is displayed throughout the month.

On the face-board A above the heading C is arranged a pocket Gr for receiving cards having printed thereon the names of the months and appearing through an opening G' in the front of the pocket G. The cards are three in number, stored in the pocket G, each card having the names of two months printed on each face and the cards being changed every month, so as to display the proper name of the month.

The year may be indicated in any suitable manner. For instance, as shown, suitable pockets I are provided in the board to contain changeable cards to indicate the year.

The calendar describedis very simple and durable in construction, can be readily changed, and properly and distinctly indicates the date of the month as Well as the day of the week.

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Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an article of manufacture, a calendar, comprising a plurality of display-pockets for exhibiting cards provided With fragmentary parts-of composite ordinals for indicating the years, a pocket for exhibiting eards indicating lthe months, a thin face-plate provided with holes, eyelets provided with integral hooks aflixed in said holes, and tablets prol vided with numerals indicating the days and also provided with eyelets for engaging said hooks.

In testimony whereof I have signed my I5 i name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THEO. G. HosTER, EVERARD B. MARSHALL. 

